Blue button
The blue button is a small sea creature that floats on the surface of warm oceans. It looks like a jellyfish, but it is really a colony of tiny animals called polyps. Its sting is not powerful, but it can cause slight skin irritation.1

Engeri y'okukitegeera
- A round, almost flat, hard golden brown float about one inch (2.5 cm) wide1
- Bright blue turquoise to yellow polyps hanging from the float1
- Blue strands with knobs of stinging cells at the tips1
- Looks similar to a jellyfish, but each 'individual' is a colony of polyps1
Kitera okutabulwa ne: It looks superficially like a jellyfish. It is related to Velella and to the Portuguese man o' war, which are also colonial animals that float on the surface.1
Amaanyi g'obusagwa
Enkumi n'enkumi z'obutoffaali obutono obubojja zikuba ekintu bwe kizikwatako.
Obusagwa bwakyo bukola ki?
It has stinging cells called nematocysts at the tips of its tentacle-like strands. The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation to human skin.1
Kirina akabi kenkana wa eri abantu?
Akabi eri abantu: KitonoNga okubojja kw'enjuki oba okutono okusingawo. Kumpi tekirina kabi eri abantu.The sting is not powerful and may cause slight irritation. In recent years, the first recorded case of contact dermatitis (a skin rash caused by contact) from this species was reported in Japan.1
Bwe kibojja
- Va mu mazzi era ggyako ebiwuuzi (tentacles) byonna (ng'okozesa ggalavu oba olugoye).
- Ku box jellyfish ez'omu bitundu ebibuguma: yiwa viniga ku bifo ebibojjeddwa okumala waakiri sikonda 30, kuba essimu okufuna obuyambi era beera mwetegefu okukola CPR. Ku bluebottles n'endala ezisinga: yozaayo n'amazzi g'ennyanja, oluvannyuma amazzi agookya olw'obulumi.
Bulijjo sooka kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911). Buno bulagirizi bwa bujjanjabi obusooka obwa bulijjo, si kuwabula kwa musawo. Obujjanjabi obusooka obw'omusingi
Weekuume
- Tokwatako, tokwata wadde okusoomooza ensolo ey'omu nsiko, ne bw'eba ntono, era ne bw'eba erabika nga yeebase oba nga efudde.
- Gireke n'ebbanga. Bw'osisinkana emu, beera mukkakkamu, dda emabega mpola era gireke egende mu kkubo lyayo.
- Bw'emu ekubojja: beera mukkakkamu, totambula, kuba ennamba y'ebigwa bitalaze (112, 000, 911) oba tuuka mu ddwaliro mangu. Jjukira bwe yali efaanana, ekifaananyi kiyamba.
Tekikunoonya. Kikozesa obusagwa bwakyo okukwata emmere oba okwekuuma, era kyandisinze kwekweka. Ebirala ku kwekuuma
Wa mu nsi?
Kinene kyenkana wa?
Kiwanvu kyenkana wa?
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Ebituufu
Each apparent individual is actually a colony of hydrozoan polyps, not a single animal.1
Young Malabar trevally fish shelter under the floats and panic when removed from them.1
Young Malabar trevally fish appear to prefer a particular colony and will return to their own partner when separated and put back in the same tank.1
It is preyed on by sea slugs known as blue dragons and by violet sea-snails of the genus Janthina.1
The blue button has a single mouth under its float, which it uses for both eating and removing waste.1
Omumenyi w'enfumo
Enfumo: A blue button is a single jellyfish-like animal.
Amazima: Each blue button is a colony of hydrozoan polyps, which are related to anemones, corals and jellyfish.1
Ku bakugu mu busagwa
- Erinnya erya ssaayansi
- Porpita porpita
- Ekibinja
- Jellyfish n'ebibojja eby'ennyanja
- Amaka
- Porpitidae2
- Ensengeka
- Anthoathecata
- Ssemazinga
- Oseyani ya Pasifiki, Oseyani ya Atlantiki, Oseyani y'e Buyindi, Ennyanja ya Karibiyani, Ennyanja ya Timor ne Arafura, Ekikono kya Bengal, Oseyani
- Akabi eri abantu
- 1 / 5: Kitono3
Ebituufu we biva
- Porpita porpita (Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0))
- Porpita porpita (iNaturalist): amannya n'ensengeka y'ebika.
- Venom Wiki: omutendera gw'akabi, obunene obwa bulijjo n'okuteebereza kw'embiro bibyaffe. Laba engeri gye tubibalamu: Engeri gye tupimamu akabi.
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